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Because of a drought, crops failed in Yugoslavia this year. Corn, the main harvest, was only half that of last year; wheat was down 30%, potatoes 70%. Total loss: 4,000,000 tons of foodstuffs and animal fodder. A winter famine would cut the capacity of Marshal Tito's independent Communist government to resist Stalinist aggression...
...Tito would like about $50 million worth of food on U.S. credit, but Washington has been cold to the suggestion. Negotiations with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corp. for the purchase of surplus food have come to nothing...
...setting, the movie creates an unusually convincing mythical Balkan state: modern Vosnia, whose beautiful mountain scenery, totalitarian bosses and strained political posture clearly suggest Tito's Yugoslavia. Its natives display the reflexes conditioned in a police state, speak the Vosnian language,* a linguistic mishmash cleverly concocted out of Latin odds and Slavic ends...
...Nevada Senator Pat McCarran's $62.5 million loan, with no strings attached, to Franco's Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case of war. What was Franco's "note" worth-"a guy like that?" he demanded...
That afternoon, the Yugoslavs began the trek back, the housewives waving their brooms, the girls their lipsticks. Yugoslav authorities feared that further excursions into the capitalist parts of Gorizia would breed discontent among Tito's subjects. At week's end, Italian newspapers carried a laconic communiqué: "Permits to cross the Italian-Yugoslav frontier will be stopped until further notice...